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You Only Get One Bullet

You're humanity's last hope against the invading forces who are dead-set on conquering your planet! But somehow your research and development team only managed to make you ONE BULLET to use against the invaders, so you'll have to go pick it up after firing it-- in the meantime, you're DEFENSELESS against the disgusting alien lunatics. And waiting behind wave after wave of slobbering abominations is the boss itself!

YOU LOSE IF
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--You hit an alien lunatic
--You hit the disgusting boss alien's death rays
--(This one's important) You let your bullet leave the bottom of the screen

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(Originally intended as a Compo entry, I realized after I was done (at 47 hours!) that I had used a for pay Unity add on (2D Toolkit), and was therefore disqualified from the Compo. D'oh! Still, my intention was to complete this within 48 hours, by myself, and I did, a huge personal goal for me.

Another personal first: this game marks my first game ever that can be considered part of that greatest of video game genres, the space shooter.)

Holy... I flew all the way to the boss without shooting (it was tough - died a lot - wanted to save my 1 shot) and THEN figured out 1 bullet not one shot, duh. hahah Made getting back to the boss easier the 2nd time. Nice game! Smooth play, and a good challenge, particularly if you don't shoot.

Kind of feels like you fail to adequately defend the planet, haha. Beat it on my second try. The boss fight was great. I'm trying to imagine a AAA game with an end screen saying: "Maybe I'll make more levels someday!"

I think the idea is solid, but the fact the bullet clears the path and stops at where it ends means you can just go to some location shoot, don't move and shoot immediately after recovering the bullet, since it will continuously clear a path for you. Perhaps a better option would be to make it only kill one enemy, and continue until it reaches the end of the screen.

well made! I liked it ^ v ^
great idea that you could pick up the bullet again, first i thought that when you had shot your only bullet it would be gone forever.

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